Product design
Bring a rough idea, a sketch or a half-working prototype. We take it to a product you can manufacture and sell.
- Research, concepts and sketches
- 3D CAD, renders and CMF
- Prototypes and design for manufacturing
Timeless Design
01 / Time
Time is ticking. Let's make every tick feel good.
Everything keeps getting faster: feeds, shipping, news, the way we work. Weeks blur together, and the years seem to go by quicker than they used to.
A day is still 24 hours.
We spend a lot of those hours with products: the bed we wake up in, the cup we drink from, the chair we work in, the bag we carry out the door. The clock won't slow down. What those hours feel like is a design decision.
Today
We design the experience you have with the product.
02 / Approach
What we design for.
- 01
The experience, not just the object.
A product is the hours you spend with it: the first time you open it, the hundredth time you use it, the day it needs fixing. We design all of those, not only how it looks in a photo.
- 02
Timeless.
Things you don't have to replace every season: durable materials, parts that can be repaired, and forms that still look right years later.
- 03
Busy hands, focused mind.
Simple, repetitive work, like grinding coffee by hand or sanding a piece of wood, takes little thought. That's where focus comes easily: you slip into a flow state and, for a while, stop watching the clock. We design for those moments.
03 / The mark
X, Y and Z, stacked. It reads as an hourglass.
XTwo diagonals
YV and stem
ZTop, slash, base
= An hourglassThe bars are the caps, the X is the glass, the dot is the neck and the stem of the Y is the falling sand.
We stacked X, Y and Z to make a monogram, then noticed it reads as an hourglass. For a studio that designs around time, it fit, so we kept it.
04 / Services
Three ways to work with us.
XYZ Design is led by a Red Dot award-winning designer. Every project starts with a conversation and ends with something you can hold.
3D printing: design + print
We do both halves. Send a sketch, a photo or a file; we make it printable, then print it in-house.
- Concept models and functional prototypes
- Replacement parts, fixtures, small batches
- PLA · PETG · TPU and more
Our own products
Things we design because we want them to exist. Some are for sale, some are open for collaboration or licensing.
- Summit, autonomous follow-me vehicle
- Zen Chair, solid sapele
- ReLO, recycling machine concept
D · Quick look
Something broken, or just needs a little help? Send us a photo.
A part that snapped, a holder that never quite fit, a fixture you can't buy anymore, or something small that could work better. Send a photo and a sentence about what it should do. We take a quick look and reply with what we would do and a quote.
Send a photo →- 01Snap a photoOf the problem, with something in the shot for scale.
- 02Say what it should doOne or two sentences is enough.
- 03Get a quick look and a quoteRepair it, redesign it, or print a new one.
Broken clips and knobsBrackets and mountsDiscontinued partsSigns and holdersSmall fixtures
Capabilities
- Industrial design
- Form · CMF · DFM
- AI-assisted design
- More directions
- 3D printing
- In-house
- Wood & handcraft
- Sapele · Joinery
- Electronics & prototypes
- ESP32 · UWB
- Product & business thinking
- Price · Story
05 / Work
Made to be lived with.
Our own projects, each designed around the time people spend with it.
Summit
Red Dot Design Concept 2026An autonomous outdoor follow-me vehicle that carries gear over sand, gravel and grass while it follows a tag you wear. The working prototype is in build now.
Time with itHours on the trail, hands free.
Partners and early testers welcome →
Zen Chair
Solid sapeleA Z-profile chair with a footrest, a firm back and a seat that slides to fit different bodies.
Time with itEvenings, for decades.
Ask about it →
Process, sketches and the stories behind each piece.
Open Sean's portfolio ↗
ReLO
ConceptA recycling machine that turns failed prints and scrap back into filament. Concept and renders, open to partners.
Time with itOld prints, a second life.
Talk about ReLO →
06 / Process
How a project runs.
The same four steps whether it's a full product or a single printed part.
- Step 01
Share the idea or the problem
Send a few lines, a sketch or a photo. Rough is fine.
- Step 02
Free intro call
We talk it through, ask the awkward questions and agree on scope and price.
- Step 03
Concepts + prototype
Sketches, CAD and AI-assisted studies, then a printed model you can hold.
- Step 04
Refine + deliver
Final files, renders, parts or a finished piece, ready for the next step.
07 / Contact
Got an idea? Let's build it.
Pick what you need and tell us a little. Got a problem to show us? Send a photo with it. We reply by email.
shang@xyzdesign.net